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Strange New Worlds‘ “Charades” in Review

It’s this year’s Comedy Vulcan Episode time… Yeah, that seems to be an actual thing with this series, and again it involves Spock’s arranged engagement to T’Pring requiring attention at

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Strange New Worlds‘ “Among the Lotus Eaters” in Review

Remember when we saw — way back in “The Cage/The Menagerie” — Captain Pike fight a primitive warrior in a flashback to a botched first contact mission on Rigel VII?

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The Costuming Origins of Bernadette Croft

In this article, Bernadette Croft — the costume designer for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds — looks back on the first season of the show, a subject I’ve interviewed her

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Strange New Worlds’ “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow” in Review

In this sixty-one-minute episode, Paul Wesley’s James T. Kirk finds himself stuck in the mid-21st century with La’an, and anybody whose enjoyment of Star Trek is tied to established canon

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Valerie Weiss — Directing Strange New Worlds‘ “Ad Astra Per Aspera”

I recently had the privilege of interviewing Director Valerie Weiss, who directed the second episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds‘ second season, “Ad Astra Per Aspera”. An award-winning filmmaker

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Creating the Costumes in the First Two Episodes of Strange New Worlds‘ Second Season

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Star Trek: Strange New Worlds costume designer Bernadette Croft, a follow-up to when I spoke to her at roughly the start of the

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Strange New Worlds‘ “Ad Astra Per Aspera” in Review

In this outing, we catch up with Captain Pike and find out what he was doing last time, when he left Spock in charge… Summary We open in a city,

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A Return to Form — Strange New Worlds‘ “The Broken Circle”

Strange New Worlds brings it home again in the second season premiere — adventure, conflict, lives needing to be saved, alien worlds, conspiracy, and moments that show the strength of

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Strange New Worlds‘ “The Broken Circle” in Review

Last season on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Spock had to unleash his more violently emotional side to survive, Lieutenant La’an took a leave of absence, and Una (aka Number

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Strange New Worlds Returns and Wants the Ship to Go… Now!

When Season 1 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds premiered last year to great fanfare, it breathed new life into the age-old formula of Star Trek: seeking out new life

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